What makes you mad?

I told a podiatrist office today that I was retired military on Medicare and Tricare for Life...

They refused the insurance, both of them.

What is happening in America?  The insurance of MEDICARE (after 65 years of age) was mandated after the failure of our government to keep their promise to those who served in the military for 20 years or more to provide FREE MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE for the rest of our lives.  Instead, they gave us MEDICARE (which we pay monthly premiums on) and TRICARE FOR LIFE (where the insurance is now up for grabs--again, grabbing at our thin wallets and worn nerves).

I think that any American company or American medical group who refuses to honor the military's meager insurance should be abolished from doing business in America.  The same to those American companies who 'create jobs' by first OUTSOURCING those jobs to foreign countries and still get to claim bonuses for CREATING jobs!!!  Jobs that are lost to Americans (such as HILTON--Blackstone) closing call centers in Hemet, California in 2010 and 'laying off' 350 Americans there, transferring only a handful who could afford to make the move to their call centers in Dallas, Texas and in Tampa, Florida.

These losses (medical insurance for retired military, in effect, at least for me, in Dallas, Texas) and those who could not afford to make the move to keep their jobs.

It's a damnable, criminal, biased and unethical way to treat Americans who do their job!!!!!

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Our attitude toward the world is that all its resources are ours despite international boundaries. We proclaim humanitarian policies but in fact are terrorists with superior technology. We do not use our drones and cruise missiles on countries with no resources...but Libya? Hey, that country is loaded with oil. Humanitarian interests? Forget it. So the cycle goes on, the defense contractors make huge profits, the world gets more unstable, the U.S. gets richer. We have our own politicians terrorizing us at home and pricing us out of healthy foods and medicines. Will anyone survive the greed and gluttony? The fascist state does not want democracy in the middle east---if the people ran the countries we could not promote terrorism or sell weapons or invade countries and bomb their innocent civilians. If we truly were a democracy our law would not permit these corporations to contribute a penny to political candidates. The fear factory run by the House Republicans is our fault; our apathy produced this fascism, our activism alone can defeat it---but now we have to pay in blood.

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Although the news about Japan's super-earthquake and tsunami are crowding out the other news, let's not forget those who are still vowing to fight Governor Walker in Wisconsin...and the stakes involved there.

Let's also not forget Libya's freedom fighters, who are on the verge of being squashed by Khadafi if the U.S. doesn't show some solid open leadership.  If anyone needs to be bombed, it's a murderous tyrant...so I hope we get out of Afghanistan and forget the hyped up 'terrorists' at large there and concentrate on creating some real Arab allies.  Rescue the heroes of Libyan opposition now.  Obama has yet to show me that he can do anything right.

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As goeth Dubya, so goeth Obama...March 8, 2011 he signed an executive order keeping
Guantanamo open forever, supporting perpetual warfare on 'terrorists.'
on dissenters, on whistleblowers,  On 'entitlements.'  On firefighters.  On nurses.  On teacher. On reality.

Never trust a politician to tell the truth.

Who is worse--Qaddafi (or Gaddafy, or Khadafy)? or Obama?

I think we will find out soon enough.

Rush Limbaugh--a real slime-bag.  During the protests in Wisconsin in February 2011, he called the people 'bottomfeeders' and 'freeloaders.'  Look at the clip that is included in Ed Shultz's commentary; it's Rush Limbaugh in all his perverse glory, mouthing ignorant accusations to incite the ignorant in America.

Yes, this icon of America -- privileged upbringing, college dropout, DRAFT DODGER -- certainly can get slobbery when talking about working Americans being shut out of the system...

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SaltonSeaSaga

SaltonSeaSaga: "'Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.'
Wendell Berry"

I met Sam on his photo shoot at Salton Sea Beach, and me being just a hobbyist photographer, I introduced myself. He said simply that he was a writer and photojournalist. He did not elaborate, but told me to go to his site, http://www.samlow.com ----

His article is an accurate depiction of the plight of the Salton Sea.

Jim

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042005183.html?wpisrc=nl_most

For an accounting of how the Bush regime ignored, bent, broke, and otherwise got around domestic and international law and moral norms, read the fascinating book by Marjorie Cohn entitled, "COWBOY REPUBLIC"

I think it's important that the Republicans, who unanimously opposed passage of this bill, read this post gleaned from the blog of Michael Moore.  Too bad, I say.  Just too damned bad.  Cry in your beer.

The Great Thing About the Health Care Law That Has Passed? It Will Save Republican Lives, Too (An Open Letter to Republicans from Michael Moore)


Monday, March 22nd, 2010

To My Fellow Citizens, the Republicans:

Thanks to last night's vote, that child of yours who has had asthma since birth will now be covered after suffering for her first nine years as an American child with a pre-existing condition.

Thanks to last night's vote, that 23-year-old of yours who will be hit one day by a drunk driver and spend six months recovering in the hospital will now not go bankrupt because you will be able to keep him on your insurance policy.

Thanks to last night's vote, after your cancer returns for the third time -- racking up another $200,000 in costs to keep you alive -- your insurance company will have to commit a criminal act if they even think of dropping you from their rolls.

Yes, my Republican friends, even though you have opposed this health care bill, we've made sure it is going to cover you, too, in your time of need. I know you're upset right now. I know you probably think that if you did get wiped out by an illness, or thrown out of your home because of a medical bankruptcy, that you would somehow pull yourself up by your bootstraps and survive. I know that's a comforting story to tell yourself, and if John Wayne were still alive I'm sure he could make that into a movie for you.

But the reality is that these health insurance companies have only one mission: To take as much money from you as they can -- and then work like demons to deny you whatever coverage and help they can should you get sick.

So, when you find yourself suddenly broadsided by a life-threatening illness someday, perhaps you'll thank those pinko-socialist, Canadian-loving Democrats and independents for what they did Sunday evening.

If it's any consolation, the thieves who run the health insurance companies will still get to deny coverage to adults with pre-existing conditions for the next four years. They'll also get to cap an individual's annual health care reimbursements for the next four years. And if they break the pre-existing ban that was passed last night, they'll only be fined $100 a day! And, the best part? The law will require all citizens who aren't poor or old to write a check to a private insurance company. It's truly a banner day for these corporations.

So don't feel too bad. We're a long way from universal health care. Over 15 million Americans will still be uncovered -- and that means about 15,000 will still lose their lives each year because they won't be able to afford to see a doctor or get an operation. But another 30,000 will live. I hope that's ok with you.

If you don't mind, we're now going to get busy trying to improve upon this bill so that all Americans are covered and so the grubby health insurance companies will be put out of business -- because when it comes to helping the sick, no one should ever be allowed to ask the question, "How much money can we save by making this poor bastard suffer?"

Please, my Republican friends, if you can, take a quiet moment away from your AM radio and cable news network this morning and be happy for your country. We're doing better. And we're doing it for you, too.

Yours,

Michael Moore

MMFlint@aol.com

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The problem with the banks is really very simple, but politicians try to mask it with complicated terminology. In a free market economy we must let businesses that make bad decisions suffer the consequences. These banks are owned by shareholders who have taken on the potential risk and reward of these banks. We have the FDIC that offers limited protection up to $100,000 per account to prevent a run on the bank, and to protect the majority of people’s savings. The biggest part of the problem is the “savior” mentality, that we can save these banks. The best way to have sustainable banks is to allow them to fail if that is the result of their bad business decisions.




— Chris Lyons

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After today's disastrous ruling by the supreme court that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, we are now, officially, a fascist state. (The definition of fascism is the combining of corporations, governments and the military.) Once the corporations own the government our military becomes their beck and call billy club around the world for their profits--not only that but with this kind of influence they will only allow those who will agree to transfer the greatest amounts of our collective tax wealth to them through wars, contracts, subsidies, etc. They will have it all and social safety nets will be drastically reduced to feed this horrible beast.




We need a constitutional amendment and we need for everyone in this country to sign onto the idea. So when you get this email, if you will copy and paste it into a new mail each time so it doesn't end up as one of those indented messes after 10 reiterations, that would be great. People for the American Way are starting an action page to get the word out and to take action against this anti-democratic abortion that has been inflicted upon us. I really hope you sign on and pass this on to EVERYONE. it is the most important email I have ever sent; yes, even more important than the contamination of our food sources with (genetic mutation) and chemicals because now that company will own Washington. It is the end of America and democracy if we allow this decision to stand. We may as well be piss ants for the corporations to burn under their magnifying glasses as they laugh all the way to the bank with our tax dollars. They've gotten a lions share of them for many years not but you ain't seen nothing yet. If we can't change this, it is the beginning of the end.



Pigs at the trough.



Shelley



Jim Pankey, USN (Ret.)





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Listen to Dick Cheney now, denying that the Bush administration used torture. What a sonofabitch. We have a PRESIDENT who is loathe to start an investigation into the lawbreaking actions (too numerous to mention) of the Bush administration. We have a PRESIDENT who seems to be hiding behind the White House curtains, which are still as opaque as when Bush was president.

When are the politicians going to be held accountable--when are investigations going to reveal the truth? Probably never. I am considering moving out of the former United States of America---I'm tired of the trickery and slickery dickery cocksuckers running the country into ruin. I'm tired of promises, lies, and deceit. If they can't be held responsible, how are the citizens of the country to react?

Jim Pankey, USN (Ret.)

Rush Limbaugh: 20 Years of Lies and Hate
Saturday, 02 August 2008
Jeff Koopersmith reviews OxyContin addict Rush Limbaugh's twenty years of hate-filled moronic mockery that has helped destroy our nation.

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August 2, 2008 – Geneva (apj.us) – The dim bulbs at Human Events had to think of something to celebrate this week so they could send their several hundred readers more spam from their “advertisers” – which include fraudulent “health care providers” and everyone who types for them giving away their stockpiled books which never sell, for free.

Human Events also had to find a hero, which is a difficult thing for the ultra right. Father Coughlan, Heinrich Himmler and Joe McCarthy are all dead, so they chose today's outstanding hate monger: Rush Limbaugh, the radio drug addict who used his maid as his “connection” to buy illegal heroin-based drugs and risked her life in doing so.

Of course, we could count of Ann Coulter – the wannabee Rush – so in love with that pig that she moved next door to him a few years ago. Of course, Rush lives in a house – a thirty million dollar compound. Ann lives in a dump – a two family atrocity on a questionable street in Palm Beach which lost half it’s value the moment she bought it. Of course, Rush must have been delighted she moved sort of “into the neighborhood.” Now they can have lunch or dinner together in a real restaurant instead of having to make bologna sandwiches at home. You see, when Rush first moved to Palm Beach he found out that when he walked into a restaurant, half the people would walk out, shouting at him – even threatening him.

In other words, Rush is a pariah – even in Republican stronghold Palm Beach. Coulter is a piranha and a pariah. Together they can at least try to go out without being stoned by people who don’t think that Condi Rice is a God.

To get to the point – Ann felt she just had to really kiss the very fat rump of Limbaugh this week, so she decided to rewrite history and claim that Rush “invented radio”.

In a way, that’s true. Limbaugh invented modern hate radio, radio for the stupid and insane, radio the paranoid and ignorant, radio for those fearful of change and longong for a return to the imaginary “values” of a past America, and radio that liberals love to listen to – because Rush is just one big comedy act to us. Dark humor it’s called.

Ann Coulter thinks that Rush’s “story” is like something from a movie. She actually writes, in a breathless gush worthy of Leni Riefensthal, “Forging his own path against all odds and under constant attack, in the end, the hero triumphs!”

The reader barfs.


I think what she meant was that he was fired over and over again for unacceptable deceitfulness and bigotry and finally, after this mode became popular in certain redneck parts of California, he finally found his niche: appeal to the dumbest asses on earth and make them think they’re brain surgeon material.

The father of Western education, John Locke, said it best: “The masses are asses”.

Ann mentions that she clerked for a federal court judge in Kansas City after she barely made it out of law school. She probably did that because, deep down, she wanted to be a prosecutor – and imprison all those black people who used and sold drugs so white people could be safe, white people like Limbaugh who could freak out all day and night on Oxycontin by using his poor maid as a drug mule – and get away with it.

I might mention that the judge she clerked for, Pasco Bowman II, was a Reagan appointee and, just by chance (wink wink), his court – the 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis, made up of Pasco Bowman, James Loken and Clarence Beam – accommodated Big Loser Kenneth Starr by removing Judge Henry Woods of Little Rock from one of Starr's sham Whitewater frauds.

Judge Bowman was frightened that Judge Woods would be far too smart for Starr’s weasel-based fables. Starr was known to be most interested finding the “Right,” as in a right wing Judge rather than finding justice. Even that ruse failed – and Coulter was probably part of it in one way or another (let's not forget Ann's role in passing around tapes of “private” conversations between Monica Lewinsky and Divine lookalike Linda “Judas” Tripp). Starr couldn’t find even a corrupt judge who would listen seriously to his hoodwink arguments.

Anyway, Coulter lets us in on what must be the world’s best kept secret: that Rush is part of the “prominent” Limbaugh family! She claims every lawyer in the Midwest has heard of the Limbaughs. Wow! Well I guess every family has to have at least one disgrace and Rush is it.

Coulter claims that Rush “spurned” the law, spurned college and “went on radio.”

She forgets why he “spurned the law and college” – but if I told you why you wouldn’t believe me. I will anyway: he was a clown. The funniest conclusion Ms. Coulter draws here that Limbaugh laughed at education – “because he wanted to” – this, naturally, being evidence that he was a “conservative.”

Huh? Well, I guess that is correct in a way – the so-called conservatives who have somehow become Neofascists in the last thirty years do just that, don’t they? They do whatever they feel like: declaring illegal wars, killing a million innocent women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan, throwing the Constitution in the toilet, enriching themselves personally drenched in the blood of our soldiers who they make believe they care for, destroying America’s economy, and making the world detest our wonderful country.

Yes, those conservatives! They do what they want.

Even Coulter has to admit – and she does – that Limbaugh was fired over and over again from radio – not because of his “distinctive brand of conservatism,” but for hate-baiting blacks, gays, lesbians, liberals (also known as people who can read and comprehend rather than using Cliff Notes), and any other typical Nazi target he could find.

Liberals never said that Rush was in radio for the money as Coulter claims. Liberals believed Rush should be exposed for the fraud he is: a liar, a bigot, a hate-filled evil fat clown, and worse.

Coulter believes Rush Limbaugh is a success. Of course she does – because people like her measure success by how much money you earn. Rush earned every nickel and he did it by hawking fraudulent and misleading products. Reliable companies that advertised on radio wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole. I’ve always wondered how much money his kind of advertisers stole from Rush’s audience – who, by definition, must be dumber than wood.

This is Coulter’s best sentence: “Perhaps some of Rush’s imitators are in it for the money, but when Rush was coming up, there was absolutely no reason to believe three hours of conservative talk radio was the path to big bucks.”

She forgot to add – imitators “like me”

Coulter thanks Limbaugh for making it “easier” for people like her to become successful at bigotry and hate mongering. I guess he deserves her thanks, but that’s like saying that Hitler made it easier for Saddam or George W. Bush for that matter.

She applauds Rush for “flushing out” liberals and making us use our “talking points” against him. This is her biggest lie. In fact, we liberals love Rush’s free-for-all use of the radio waves – he makes liberals look smarter every day. How Coulter can use the word “us” referring to herself and Rush is the biggest laugh.

Here’s a fact: Coulter is nothing. Limbaugh, like Stalin, is monumental – a monumental hate-filled fraud.

Coulter goes on with her weasel comparisons – “there was no FOX News, no Drudge Report. Rush just had to stand there taking the bullets by himself.” Bullets? You mean Treasury Bills, don’t you?

Even more ridiculous is putting Matt Drudge in a league alongside FOX. As I recall, FOX briefly broadcast Drudge – then fired him! Further, Drudge often tells the truth – which is more than I can say for Coulter or Limbaugh. Both are merely hired ideological whores for evil in my judgment.

I’m not sure anyone criticizes Mr. Limbaugh any longer. Why bother? He’s now a bit player on a very big stage. There are so many Rush Limbaughs who are so much dumber and more mean-spirited than he that he’s merely another egg in the rotten dozen. Look at Sean Hannity, for instance: a high school dropout thug with an IQ that matches my dog’s.

As for Coulter’s rehash of how “large” the Neocon audience is today, I remind her that her ludicrous books are taking up a football field’s size warehouse and that Rush’s numbers are way down. However, he is popular.

Again, “the Masses are Asses” – or at least that’s the theory Rush works from, the same one that thrust Hitler to power: “the Big Lie.” Rush is the certainly one of the biggest liars.

Coulter couldn’t find any recent criticism of Limbaugh because no one really cares to bother. So, she dug up a 17 year-old list of criticisms against conservatives from a world renowned news source, The Syracuse Post-Standard, that published a list of Rush-based tag lines. I won’t bother you with the full list, but she misses the point – as usual – because she measures success by money. That’s the only thing she knows. She counters Limbaugh’s thoughtful critics not by defending his hate-mongering, but by reminding us how much money he has accrued.

As always, in these days of Obama, Coulter manages to inject some anti-black racism into her column, this time talking about Limbaugh’s lies and hate speech and actually quoting him: “When the [black] illegitimacy rate is raised, the Rev. Jackson and other black leaders immediately change the subject."

Then Coulter follows telling us that Jesse Jackson decries “children having children”?

Yes, and…?

She must be drinking again.

Coulter feels that liberals believe Rush Limbaugh is stupid. This is absolutely not true. Limbaugh is uneducated. He is a dolt. He knows nothing of what he speaks about. Yet he isn’t at all stupid. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer – a clown, a Bozo of bluster, a hate-filled puppet who does a great job of it.

I would wager he is close to genius on that scale – but then, so are a lot of serial killers.


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Jeff Koopersmith is an internationally renowned political consultant, opinion research authority and policy analyst. He has lobbied for causes including the alternative fuel sector and women's health, and is an expert on the international real estate market. He lives in Philadelphia, Washington and Geneva.